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  [caption id="attachment_3574" align="alignnone" width="580"] England dismissed Sri Lanka for 91. Image Source: File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: In seven previous Tests at Headingley, spanning his full 13-year career, Anderson had racked up 19 wickets at 41.36, with a best innings haul of 3 for 91. That performance, however, didn't exactly cheer him up either. It came during Sri Lanka's last visit to Yorkshire in 2014, when he left the ground in tears following his penultimate-ball dismissal to Shaminda Eranga. Today, however, Anderson banished his demons in style, producing a sensational 70-ball onslaught of swing and seam, spread across two spells either side of tea, for which Sri Lanka - in their weakened post-Jayawardene and Sangakkara state - had no answer. It would be hard to claim he will ever feel quite as at home here as England's other main man of the second day, Yorkshire's own Johny Bairstow, but this was a performance with a distinctly cathartic feel. Anderson wrapped up Sri Lanka's innings with figures of 5 for 16 in 11.4 overs, his 19th five-wicket haul in 115 Tests. Among fast bowlers, only Courtney Walsh (519) and Glenn McGrath (563) lie ahead of him. On this form, with a maximum of 13 innings still to come this summer, he could yet move to within striking distance of the top guns before the season is done. Anderson may, however, have to share some of the spoils with his new-ball partner, Stuart Broad who shared the figures of 4/21. In the end, bad light came to Sri Lanka's rescue as play was abandoned for the play after just two Anderson deliveries in the second innings. But they will need to score more than twice their small total of 91 when play resumes on Saturday just to ask England to bat again. And, as a further measure of that challenge, only one batsman in the match so far has exceeded that number of runs off their own bat. That batsman, of course, is Bairstow, whose brilliant 140 followed directly on from scores of 246 and 198 in his last two outings at Headingley for Yorkshire. His innings spanned two distinct phases of England's own innings without ever wavering from the positive intent he brought to the crease on the first afternoon, when he and Alex Hales had been confronted with a fraught scoreline of 83 for 5. Bairstow, however, was the life and soul of England's batting. He outscored Hales by three runs to one throughout their morning resumption, and made the most of one clear moment of good fortune, on 70, when Nuwan Pradeep failed to gather a sharp return catch. He received little support until Finn's improbable cameo - Moeen Ali, low on confidence as an under-used No. 8, came and went for a duck, caught at short leg off Dushmantha Chameera, whose hustling full length then splattered Broad's stumps via an inside edge. Bairstow simply stared down the track, rather nonplussed by the sudden clatter of wickets. But from the first ball of Chameera's next over, he drilled a drive into the covers, paused as a wild shy came in at the non-striker's end, then galloped through with glee as the ball zipped through for overthrows to gift him his second century and his first on home soil. Given his family connection, it was a moment that he may yet cherish even more than his emotional first century, at Cape Town five months ago. England's eventual total of 298 was quickly put into context when Sri Lanka's openers came out to reply. Faced with grey skies and a packed cordon, Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva betrayed their anxieties in the very first over, when they hesitated so long over a quick single that they could have ended up shaking hands in the middle of the pitch. Instead, after inching through the first three overs, they waved goodbye to one another in the space of five deliveries. First, Broad straightened one off the seam to kiss the edge of the left-handed Karunaratne, who departed for a 12-ball duck, before Anderson drew level with Kapil on 434 career wickets by finding some extra lift to dispose of Silva for 11. One over later, and Broad had two wickets in three balls as he went wide on the crease to spear an angled full-length ball into Kusal Mendis' forward defence, for Bairstow to snaffle the slenderest of deflections behind the stumps. Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews stood firm in a 31-run stand before the interval, as James Vince - funkily introduced by Cook in a bid to emulate Dasun Shanaka's own debutant heroics - zipped a flying edge through the cordon from the final ball of the session. Straight after the resumption, however, it was Vince's hands at third slip that made the breakthrough, as Chandimal was forced to play at a pearler from Stokes, and at 43 for 4, the foundations of the innings had been fatally undermined. Mathews, typically, found a means to delay the inevitable, as he counter-attacked with skill and intent in an innings top-score of 34 from 62 balls. But Anderson's return did him in - after lining up the outswinger he was pinned on the pad by the one that jagged back in. Though replays showed he would have been reprieved on review - the ball struck him outside the line - his bamboozle was absolute as he chose not to quibble. Hales, to his palpable distraught, failed to convert his overnight 71 to a maiden Test hundred - he was eventually caught in the deep off Rangana Herath for 86 after an agonisingly restrained morning's work that snapped in a moment of uncontrolled violence, much as he tried to snap his bat in frustration as he left the field to a sympathetic ovation. Though the doubts about his suitability as a Test opener haven't entirely been banished by his efforts, his share in a sixth-wicket stand of 141 cannot be underestimated in a curious England scorecard, in which the next highest score (17) came from the No. 10, Steven Finn. Broad then bagged a brace as Finn, at mid-off, showed improbable agility to cling on to two diving chances in consecutive overs, but with both of England's gun bowlers on four wickets and just the one left to squabble over, Anderson reclaimed his senior status by strangling the last man down the leg side on review, to give Bairstow a haul of five catches in the innings.